A pioneer of European Pop art, Mimmo Rotella’s 150 work survey focuses on his early pieces from 1953 – 1964. Works of his contemporaries like Andy Warhol, Piero Manzoni, Cy Twombley and a signature mirrored portrait by Michelangelo Pistoletto add an...
Stik, the London grafitti artist, was in the process of finishing his second major New York City piece. Repeats of his iconic stick figure, holding hands, embellishes one of downtown’s iconic remaining water towers.“The Union Square piece is a union of...
Nicola Vassell, former director of Deitch Projects and Pace Gallery, presents “Black Eye”, a show of 21st century black art as a pop up gallery on a quiet cobblestoned backstreet. The beautiful, Jamaican born Vassell first came to New York as a...
In her fourth decade as one of America’s most innovative and influential photographers, Laurie Simmons says her current New York show “Kigurumi, Dollers and How We see” examines work that is “finally comfortable in a human scale...
New York cultural legend Rene Ricard died on February 1 at the age of sixty seven. An underground icon, the Boston born painter, poet, art critic and actor created eclectic works that have long been considered cult treasures. As one of Andy Warhol’s earliest...
Sarah Sze’s gravity defying installation, representing the US at the Venice Biennale this year, takes the title “Triple Point” from the singular combination of temperature and pressure at which all three phases of a substance (liquid, gas, and solid)...
Ilka Scobie looks back on a vibrant period of art history and social change - Artlyst ExclusiveNotorious for street crime, a crumbling urban infrastructure, abandoned buildings, and homeless people, New York City, my hometown, was fertile ground for social and...
Faith Ringgold, a pioneering multimedia artist renowned for her vibrant pictorial quilts capturing the essence of the African American experience, passed away on Saturday at her Englewood, New Jersey residence. She was 93 years old. Her daughter, Barbara Wallace,...
The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced the appointment of Kim Conaty as the Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator. Effective April 8, Conaty assumes this prestigious role, which is set to profoundly shape the museum's future. With an impressive...